Book review: It's Not What You Think
Scotsman.com Living - Books (Free subscription) | yesterday
It's Not What You Think by Chris Evans is published by Harper Collins, priced £20.
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U.S. Braces For Angry Robot Invasion [Books]
io9 (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
HarperCollins' new science-fiction imprint, Angry Robot, is invading the United States at last, starting in May — and instead of ramping up slowly, it's hitting us with six titles per month.... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Final Reminder for Bookshops
Neil Gaiman's Journal (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
A quick reminder (as I was just asked) that today is the day that the bookshop Graveyard Book party reports have to be in to Harper Collins. By 9 pm PST. http://files.harpercollins.com/Mktg/HarperChildrens/PDF/GraveyardContest_rules.pdf are the rules and info for those who lost them. Hi Mr. Gaiman, I was disappointed today to read you won't be part of the judging for The Graveyard Book contests. My...
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New Voice: Joy Preble on Dreaming Anastasia
spookycyn (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Joy Preble is the first-time author of Dreaming Anastasia (Sourcebooks, 2009). From the promotional copy: Anastasia Romanov thought she would never feel more alone than when the gunfire started and her family began to fall around her. Surely the bullets would come for her next. But they didn't. Instead, two gnarled old hands reached for her. When she wakes up she discovers that she is in the ancient...
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Bookish News for Friday
Thoughts from Botswana (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
It looks like Fridays are going to be the Best in Blogland or Book News here at Thoughts From Botswana. Big news this week was that Nigerian writer Seffi Atta has won the Noma Award for her short story collection Lawless and Other Stories published by Farafina. Short story collections seem to be coming into their own lately which is a wonderful thing. I must also mention the honourable mention given...
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Note to self: Nights are for sleeping, Days are for Being Awake.
Neil Gaiman's Journal (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Still trying to get back onto a diurnal schedule. (And, I should add, failing.) Maddy and I started watching the new season of Sarah Jane Adventures tonight, which seems back on form after a dodgy second season. Many amazing things waiting for me when I got home -- I still haven't gone through them all yet -- but today's mail brought me a copy of the Fantagraphics Gahan Wilson: 50 Years of Playboy...
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Things I Would Have Done Differently
The Kill Zone (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
By John Gilstrap www.johngilstrap.com Before I begin, allow me a moment of Shameless Self Promotion: The Copper Bracelet—the serial novel created by International Thriller Writers (and to which I contributed a chapter) is the #1 Bestseller at www.audible.com. Hooray! The Killzone posts have been extraordinary this week, I think. Had I not been up to my eyeballs in day-job meetings and crises,...
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Books: Newswire:Wyclef Jean to write tell-all book
A.V. Club (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Sohh.com is reporting that Wyclef Jean has inked a deal to write a tell-all memoir chronicling his time in The Fugees. Anthony Bozza, who recently co-wrote Tracy Morgan's memoir, will co-write the book, which will be released by It Books, an imprint of Harper Collins, The book will reportedly cover Jean's childhood in Haiti, breakthrough with the Fugees, solo career and incestuous relationship with...
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NYT 10 Best Children's Books
Sheryl McFarlane's Book Blog (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
NYT Picks 10 Best Children's Books Running in this Sunday's New York Times Book Review, the list comprises: * Only a Witch Can Fly , by Alison McGhee, illustrated by Taeeun Yoo (Feiwel & Friends) * Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11 , written and illustrated by Brian Floca (Richard Jackson/Atheneum) * The Odd Egg , written and illustrated by Emily Gravett (Simon & Schuster) * A Penguin Story...
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How Gary Vee Crushed His Way to a Bestseller
Fast Company (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
How can you assure yourself a bestseller? Become a celebrity. [Viral Loop Chronicles Part 3] There are two kinds of books that are almost surefire hits and which publishers will bid what may seem like insane amounts: Those written by (or ghostwritten for) celebrities, and those written by (or ghostwritten for) celebrities. Andre Agassi signed a deal for a reported $5 million for his upcoming autobiography,...
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NYT: Glenn Beck Becoming the New Oprah for Fiction Writers
NewsBusters (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
" Virtually every novelist in America fantasizes about being picked to appear on Oprah Winfrey's talk show. But now an increasing number of writers have discovered a new champion: Glenn Beck ." Hold onto your seats, for that's not a quote from the National Review or the Weekly Standard. It's actually the opening paragraph of an absolutely glowing piece about Beck's impact on the book industry...
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Charlie Gasparino's New Book "The Sellout"
The Reasoned Sceptic (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
With his new book, "The Sellout," released on Tuesday and already available on Amazon for about $15, Charlie Gasparino appeared on CNBC nearly non-stop that day. Harper-Collins' publicity people arranged for a same-day book review in the Wall Street Journal, as well. The review is extremely positive and provides some important details which Gasparino ceaselessly provided in his on-air interviews...
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Palin book tour avoids 'Democratic' cities
The Political Carnival (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Never, ever heard of such a thing. I guess they're not part of "Real America". NEW YORK -- Sarah Palin's book tour is a gift for her base. No stops are planned in Seattle, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and other major cities and book-buying communities that are standard for authors on the road, but where the voters tend to be Democrats. Beyond a Nov. 16 television interview with...
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Oxbow's Eugene Robinson Pens Novel 'A Long Slow Screw'...
The Daily Swarm (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
The first novel from OXBOW ‘s EUGENE S. ROBINSON , and the second publication after the release of his 2007 book FIGHT : EVERYTHING YOU EVER WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT ASS KICKING BUT WERE AFRAID YOU ‘D GET YOUR ASS KICKED FOR ASKING [Harper Collins], A LONG SLOW SCREW is a two-fisted hardboiled crime saga set in 1970s New York that closely follows a diamond heist gone right and then murderously...
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Racing Toward Armageddon: The Three Great Religions and the Plot to End the World by Michael Baigent
The Blog of Walker (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
I've never read this book. Don't expect that I shall. However, I did find this review from the Chalcedon Foundation rather entertaining: Racing Toward Armageddon: The Three Great Religions and the Plot to End the World by Michael Baigent (New York: HarperCollins, 2009) Reviewed by Lee Duigon “Fundamentalist religions are humanity’s greatest enemy.” –Michael Baigent (p. xx) This...